Last post I showed you how to begin converting your eBook to a paperback. Choose the font, format, etc. and begin by separating out your first page from the rest. Now fix up the rest of the front matter. Copyright […]
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Lulu – Printing Requirements
You’ve got your eBook up and ready to be made into a print book. Bully for you! This is exciting stuff. You’ve done all the hard yards, now it’s just the tedious (but important) yards. Lulu insists that, if you’re […]
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ISBNs and All That Jazz
When you publish your eBook, you can assign an ISBN to it. You know that butt ugly barcode that’s sitting on the back of a book? That’s the one. In digital format, you don’t need to worry about having a […]
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eBook to Hardcopy – Lulu
The Print On Demand option is very attractive for indie authors. We’re not rolling in dough. We haven’t got the patience or time to go running after a publisher or go chatting to distributors to please purchase these titles. We […]
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Blowing Eggs – The Easy Way
It’s Easter, Sunday 27th of Match, so for all you egg painting freaks, you’re probably thinking, “How am I going to blow all of my eggs in time?”, right? Am I right? I’m right, aren’t I? Fret not! A while back I put up […]
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Digital Versus Hardcopy
Getting your book up in digital is exciting. Once you’ve put an ISBN against it and pushed it to the numerous distributors, it can be found across the net. Wow! Funny thing is, while it’s awesome having your stuff up […]
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Format, Distribution, Promotion…
Publishing Jolimont Street Ghost should have been a ‘crack a beer and take a week or two off moment’. After all, the hard stuff is done. Writing and editing and proofing and all of that stuff. Done. Front cover and […]
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Jolimont Street Ghost – Free at last!
Tada! Please find Jolimont Street Ghost at Smashwords, yours for free, with my compliments, in whatever format you like. Cue the fireworks and open the champagne. OK, maybe I’ll just crack a beer and watch Hellboy. You see, I wanted […]
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Blurb is a Four Letter Word
Third draft of Jolimont Street Ghost is done. More changes, “whoops, how’d that get in there?”, get rid of that unnecessary tosh, red pens and redder eyes. Now I’m going to let it stew once more, while I figure out […]
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It’s that time again…
‘Jolimont Street Ghost’ second draft is done. Still a few things to tidy up. Still some paragraphs that need work. But now it’s time to break out the red pen. Yeppers, it’s head down, bum up, editing hat on with […]
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